Community & Influence Series™
Leadership grows through relationships.
Strengthen mentorship, sponsorship, executive presence, communication, networking, collaboration, and community engagement while expanding your influence to create opportunities for others.
Develop the confidence and relational leadership skills needed to build authentic connections, elevate others, strengthen communities, and create meaningful impact through influence that extends beyond individual achievement.
What You’ll Learn
The Community & Influence Series™ helps you build meaningful relationships, strengthen collaboration, and expand your influence in ways that create value for individuals, organizations, and communities.
Throughout the series, you’ll strengthen your ability to communicate with purpose, mentor and sponsor others, build executive presence, cultivate professional networks, and create authentic connections that inspire trust and open opportunities for collective success.
By the end of the series, you will be able to:
- Build authentic relationships that strengthen leadership effectiveness.
- Communicate with confidence, clarity, and purpose.
- Develop mentoring and sponsorship practices that support the growth of others.
- Expand professional networks through meaningful collaboration and community engagement.
Explore the Learning Experience
Each module within the Community & Influence Series™ builds intentionally upon the previous one, creating a connected leadership journey that strengthens communication, collaboration, mentorship, sponsorship, executive presence, and community engagement.
Every module follows the Center for Leadership Excellence learning format:
Instructional Lecture
A focused 20- to 30-minute learning experience introduces the module concepts, learning objectives, practical examples, and Purple Truth™.
Applied Learning
Deepen your understanding through guided reflection, leadership exercises, and practical application designed to strengthen how you communicate, collaborate, build relationships, and influence others.
Knowledge Assessment
Reinforce your understanding through reflection, an intentional leadership commitment, and a brief knowledge assessment before continuing to the next module.
This format helps you move beyond consuming leadership content and begin applying what you learn to how you build relationships, create opportunities for others, and strengthen the communities and organizations you serve.
Companion Reading
Purple Harvest Trilogy™
The Purple Harvest Trilogy™ serves as the companion reading and reflection resource for the Black Women Who Mentor™ Pathway.
Throughout the Community & Influence Series™, you’ll encounter reflection prompts, Blooming practices, affirmations, and personal growth concepts that reinforce mentorship, sponsorship, communication, collaboration, executive presence, influence, and community-centered leadership.
The books are not required for course completion, but they are recommended for learners who want to deepen their leadership journey and continue their growth beyond the learning experience.
Explore the Series
Community & Influence Series™
Expand your leadership through meaningful relationships and lasting impact.
Journey through eight connected learning experiences that strengthen mentorship, sponsorship, communication, executive presence, networking, collaboration, and community engagement while equipping you to create opportunities for others and lead with greater influence.
8 Modules | 8 Learning Hours | Self-Paced Learning | Enrollment Opening Soon
Continue Your Leadership Journey
Leadership becomes more meaningful when it creates connection, opportunity, and growth for others.
You have completed the Black Women Who Mentor™ Pathway, strengthening your identity, well-being, relationships, influence, and capacity to invest in the growth of others.
Continue your leadership journey through the Catalyst Pathway™, where you’ll deepen your mindset, strengthen your leadership judgment, expand your capabilities, and intentionally become the leader you are capable of becoming.
